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   on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 10:34:32 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ
   sometimes i click on lesswrong and read inane stuff like this:
   
   You face two open boxes, Left and Right, and you must take one of them. In the Left box, there is a live bomb; taking this box will set off the bomb, setting you ablaze, and you certainly will burn slowly to death. The Right box is empty, but you have to pay $100 in order to be able to take it.
   
   A long-dead predictor predicted whether you would choose Left or Right, by running a simulation of you and seeing what that simulation did. If the predictor predicted that you would choose Right, then she put a bomb in Left. If the predictor predicted that you would choose Left, then she did not put a bomb in Left, and the box is empty.
   
   The predictor has a failure rate of only 1 in a trillion trillion. Helpfully, she left a note, explaining that she predicted that you would take Right, and therefore she put the bomb in Left.
   
   You are the only person left in the universe. You have a happy life, but you know that you will never meet another agent again, nor face another situation where any of your actions will have been predicted by another agent. What box should you choose?”
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     oshy (ocean@raru.re)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 10:37:33 JST oshy

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     @lain

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     Sir Funk ?? (sophistifunk@noagendasocial.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 11:18:33 JST Sir Funk ??

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     @lain this kinda dumb shit is what the ancient greeks were on about most of the time, there's a reason the 3 guys whose names we remember from then span several hundred years. It's mostly bollocks and masturbation :)

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     on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ (lain@lain.com)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 11:50:14 JST on-lain ✔ᵛᵉʳᶦᶠᶦᵉᵈ

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     • Mercurial
     @MercurialBlack congratulations, you're smarter than all of lesswrong
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     Mercurial (mercurialblack@leafposter.club)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 11:50:15 JST Mercurial

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     Neither...?
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     ashley (rabcyr@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 12-Jan-2023 11:55:17 JST ashley

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     @lain who tf am i paying $100 too???

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